14 ideas
7823 | Lucretius was rediscovered in 1417 [Grayling] |
2614 | Modern phenomenalism holds that objects are logical constructions out of sense-data [Ayer] |
2615 | The concept of sense-data allows us to discuss appearances without worrying about reality [Ayer] |
22687 | Maybe literary assessment is evaluating the artist as a suitable friend [Gaut] |
22686 | Formalists say aesthetics concerns types of beauty, or unity, complexity and intensity [Gaut] |
22690 | 'Moralism' says all aesthetic merits are moral merits [Gaut] |
22685 | Good art does not necessarily improve people (any more than good advice does) [Gaut] |
22684 | Good ethics counts towards aesthetic merit, and bad ethics counts against it [Gaut] |
22689 | If we don't respond ethically in the way a work prescribes, that is an aesthetic failure [Gaut] |
7809 | In an honour code shame is the supreme punishment, and revenge is a duty [Grayling] |
7824 | If suicide is lawful, but assisting suicide is unlawful, powerless people are denied their rights [Grayling] |
7819 | Religion gives answers, comforts, creates social order, and panders to superstition [Grayling] |
7817 | To make an afterlife appealing, this life has to be denigrated [Grayling] |
7818 | In Greek mythology only heroes can go to heaven [Grayling] |